• By Mindy M Boehm
• From

• Vol 1, Issue 2
• 11/11/2009 11:21:19 PM

I am a lucky doctor. I have never seen a case of tetanus, polio, diphtheria or rubella. I have seen a couple of cases of measles, treated a few cases of mumps and still see the occasional case of chicken pox. When I first became a pediatrician—or kid doctor—in 1981, I would do several spinal taps a month on children to rule out meningitis, which is an infection of the brain and spinal cord. These ...

Keywords: Childhood Immunizations

• By Mindy M Boehm
• From

• Vol 1, Issue 3
• 1/5/2010 3:40:49 AM

I am a lucky doctor. I have never seen a case of tetanus, polio, diphtheria or rubella. I have seen a couple of cases of measles, treated a few cases of mumps and still see the occasional case of chicken pox. When I first became a pediatrician—or kid doctor—in 1981, I would do several spinal taps a month on children to rule out meningitis, which is an infection of the brain and spinal cord. These...

Keywords: Childhood Immunizations

• By Mindy M Boehm
• From

• Vol 1, Issue 1
• 11/11/2009 11:21:37 PM

I am a lucky doctor. I have never seen a case of tetanus, polio, diphtheria or rubella. I have seen a couple of cases of measles, treated a few cases of mumps and still see the occasional case of chicken pox. When I first became a pediatrician—or kid doctor—in 1981, I would do several spinal taps a month on children to rule out meningitis, which is an infection of the brain and spinal cord. These ...

Keywords: Childhood Immunizations